https://csedpodcast.org/tags/undergrad-teaching-assistants/Recent content in undergrad teaching assistants on CS-Ed Podcast Home PageHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USMon, 04 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s3ep12_socially_responsible_computing/Mon, 04 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s3ep12_socially_responsible_computing/Episode Summary How do you infuse a class to engage students with socially responsible computing? Kathi Fisler from Brown University discusses Brown’s undergraduate teaching assistant (UTA) program, where they hired UTAs to specifically focus on finding ways to do just that in the classes they were embedded in. In this episode, we talk about the program, how she teaches socially responsible computing in her intro computer science (CS) classes, and how her goal is to get students to ask the right questions.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s3e9_peer_teaching/Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s3e9_peer_teaching/Episode Summary In this episode, Sarah Heckman from North Carolina State University and our host discuss the Peer Teaching Summit at SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2022. We cover what a peer teacher is, more commonly known as an undergraduate or graduate teaching assistant, and how they support student help-seeking. The summit brought together many people with peer teachers at their schools where they discussed what they can and cannot do, and how every school is unique.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s3e7_class_forums/Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s3e7_class_forums/Episode Summary In this episode, we talk with Amogh Mannekote, a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida. He and others analyzed class forum data from three very different classes and discovered that a lot of factors influence how students use the class forum, including the kind of class assignments, the accessibility of other sources of help, and how the instructor or TAs answer questions on the class forum. After doing this work, he also strongly believes that instructors should download and analyze their data or we should create more “out of the box” open-source tools that do this for instructors.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/season3_episode3/Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/season3_episode3/In this episode, we talk with Michael Ball from the University of California, Berkeley. Our focus is on undergraduate teaching assistants (TAs), which Berkeley has a long history of. Michael goes into detail about what Berkeley TAs do, the TA hierarchy, and TA training. We learn about a small core group of students that make an undergraduate career out of being TA. Another question we focus on is advice to an institution that is just starting its TA program.